u/Dexter__White

I'll preface this by saying I'm an absolute HUGE Guns N Roses and rock'n'roll fan. It's not a "pure hate" post just to unleash uncalled for anger on one of the most popular band of rock'n'roll history or play the "outsider" kind of guy. Nope, I love Guns N Roses, and probably will do until I die.

But recently, I just can't stand the absolute hypocrisie about this band and its leader Axl Rose absolute terrible performances anymore. Especially in circles where he's worshipped like a messiah like the Guns N Roses sub for instance where mentionning this wouldn't even be possible because of the huge denial everybody seem to be suffering from.

I have been a fan since the early 2000's, I wasn't born during GnR's peak, and discovered them when they were still "seperated". I loved their history and how wild they were, like a raw unleashed band of angry animals whom music made sense for a generation of kids and young adults stuck in some weird era where past and future were mixing, music, social and political wise.

I've even red Slash's book which I adored for a long time. Like many kids, he's the reason why I started playing guitar. I also adored Axl Rose, for me he just was this mysterious, tortured and bad ass guy, who's seen and endured too many, which explained his weird behaviour and the end of the band.

So I was absolutely ecstatic when the rumours in 2016 about them forming the band again were true, and when Axl Rose stepped up for Brian Johnson as a lead for ACDC's tour, and I went to see them in 2016, then Guns N Roses in 2017.

Both shows were absolutely phenomenal. Axl Rose was a beast. My first ever impression of his vocal skills in real life, witnessing him, were on that stage, sweating for 3 hours in high, raspy, animal, pitch singing ACDC's best songs, and it was just crazy, he delivered like absolutely no one in the industry could have at that time in my humble opinion.

When I saw him a year later with Guns N Roses, he was still top notch. Missing a few spots here and there, but had been on tour non-stop since I saw him, and still 3 hours long shows so what the heck, I didn't care, since 90% of the time, he delivered. His screams during Welcome to the Jungle song gave me chills, I closed my eyes and for the first time felt like the kid I wish I was in the late 80's or early 90's. The whole band was on point, they were having a blast, you could tell.

Then it kept going on, and on... and on... Their years long tour kept going, arround the world, with the same songs always playing, the same show.

I regularely watched here and there some videos of their live performances, and I gradually saw the downfall of Axl's Rose performances, up to a point where I was asking myself "what's the point to even pay for this?". It was absolutely ridiculous. It hurts to say this, because I truly love Axl Rose, I'm stunned by his physical and mental transformation since he came back from the shadows, he lost a ton of weight, looks healthy, seems fine and less angry and moody than he used to, likes to please his fans... I mean, outside of the stage he's a great and stand-up guy, but he just cannot deliver a proper performance anymore, and I just think he should stop.

Sure he can take "low-pitched" songs, and he's good with them, you can tell he doesn't even sweat it for such a talented vocalist like he is. But considering the vast majority of Guns N Roses song took advantage of young Axl Rose's out of this world raspy high-pitched raspy voices, it's absolutely embarassing to witness him, lacking any rasp or power in his voice anymore, trying to save the walls and still performing them on stage with a straight face.

And fans are there, in the audience, and they paid to see this. I mean come on.

I know the guy is past his prime, of course he is, he's 64 years old, not many can stay young, fresh, and keep something as peculiar as his voice for more 50 years. I don't blame him a bit, it's just natural, aging, time... It's crual but it's like this. We all lose some skills and features when we ages, we just have to make our peace with it and accept it.

But still forcing it like it does, and daring to go on stage to deliver this kind of awful performance, I'm sorry but I feel like it's almost scamming people, scamming Guns N Roses fans and grinding on their money using nostalgia while they still can be standing on stage.

Not to mention, the reunion never truly was one. Steven Adler, despite his "mistakes" (water under the bridge right?) was never invited back into the band, even when they had the chance to when the drummer left, nor was Izzy Stradlin. And they didn't bother using the momentum of that amazing reunion energy and performances to make a new album, and I think it's too late now, when I see the state of Axl Rose's vocals, I would imagine it would be filled with auto-tuned vocals to fight the lack of rasp and range and it would just be awful, just like "this I love" track is.

I'm sorry for the rant, but I just can't stand that hypocrisie anymore, and I want to know, if I'm objectively right to think this?

Not interested in biased and low-effort comments hating on the band or the guys for no reason. I know there always has been a good community of people hating on Axl Rose just because they don't like the guy, and this is not the topic here. I think I made it pretty clear why I'm pissed at him, but if it's "just because I don't like the guy" or "yea he didn't attend on his shows and provoked a riot in Saint Louis", like, let it go man.

I know it's a running gag / meme on this sub and I found some of them pretty funny, but I did not manage to find the reason why you always have the option to watch it and Henry always says the same lines.

Usually when there's something you can look at, it's a one time thing, but not the fountain, nor the clock over the city hall and>!I know that you can fix during the blacksmith DLC, but at least the line changes once you do. !<

So is this a voluntary thing, a bug, or is there a quest related to that fountain?

I was wondering, why can't I tell anyone that I killed Von Aulitz?

I know this isn't a high feat of arms, considering Von Aulitz state, but it's still a pretty big fucking deal right? After all the guy was Sigismond's right hand and close friend as we can see from their conversation in Kuttenberg counsel, or through the letter Sigismund sent him.

Dude was the original nemesis of Henry, the guy who butchered his parents in front of him and erased countless of villages, scorched earth style, through Bohemia, and nobody seems to give a flying fuck that he's dead, or that you took part in that thing when you were only supposed to steal horses in the camp and wouldn't have been gone the extra mile if your stupid hothead "bruther" hasn't been captured.

I find it very odd and a bit disappointing that you cannot tell a soul about it, but you can tell them you killed Brabant, who is insignificant on the 4D chessboard storyline. Hell even Hans or Hanush, Radzig or Jiska would have been happy to hear about it, right? And what about Katherine who is fueled by revenge against Sigismund should also be wanting to get Von Aulitz dead since he's probably part of what killed her husband and child?

Unless I missed something?